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School of Public Health
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 9479 1750
Fax: +61 3 9479 1783
Email: sph
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School of Public Health
Professor Sandra Leggat
Contact Details
Email:S.Leggat@latrobe.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9479 1749
International: +61 3 9479 1749
Fax: (03) 9479 1783
International: +61 3 9479 1783
Office: HS1-130
Qualifications
BSc (Physical Therapy), University of Toronto
GradCert (Higher Education) La Trobe University
MHSc (Health Administration), University of Toronto
MBA, York University
PhD (Organisational Behaviour), University of Toronto
Interests
I joined La Trobe University Health Services Management Program in May
2002. I have had a varied career in health care management. I started
as a physiotherapist in Ontario, Canada and moved through the hierarchy
to become department manager and then senior manager in a number of Canadian
health care organisations. I was Vice-President Planning and Corporate
Development at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care [www.baycrest.org],
Administrative Director Primary Ambulatory and Community Care at The Toronto
Hospital (now known as University Health Network [www.uhn.ca], and Executive
Director at The Health Station, a community health centre in Toronto.
I moved from Toronto in 1998 to become Chief Planning Officer of the Inner
& Eastern Health Care Network in Melbourne. I have experience as a
management consultant, most recently with PricewaterhouseCoopers, but
also with The Hay Group and Agnew Peckham and Associates, a smaller health
care planning consulting firm. I have always enjoyed teaching and have
been an active teacher on a part-time basis at La Trobe and Monash Universities
since arriving in Melbourne and I taught full time at the University of
Toronto [www.utoronto.ca/hpme]. I am a fellow of the Australia College
of Health Service Executives [www.achse.org.au] and co-editor, with Judith
Dwyer, of Australian Health Review (www.aushealthcare.com.au).
Publications
Bartram, T., Stanton, P., Leggat, Sandra G., Casimiar, G., & Fraser,
B. (2007). Lost in translation: Making the link between HRM and performance
in healthcare. Human Resource Management, 16(3), 21-41.
Leggat, S. (Editor). (2007). Australian Health Review.
Sheahan, M., Little, R., & Leggat, S. (2007). Performances reporting
for consumers: Issues for the Australian private hospital sector. Australia
and New Zealand Health Policy, 4(5), doi:10.1186/1743-8462-1184-1185.
Bartram, T., Stanton, P., Leggat, S. G., Casimiar, G., & Fraser,
B. (2006). Lost in translation: Making the link between HRM and performance
in healthcare. Human Resource Management, 16(3), 21-41.
Leggat, S. G. (Ed.). (2006). Australian Health Review.
Leggat, S. G. (2006). Mental health: Take 2 (Editorial). Australian Health
Review, 30(3), 269-270.
Leggat, S. G., Bartram, T., & Stanton, P. (2006). People management
in Victorian community health services: An exploratory study. Australian
Journal of Primary Health, 12(3), 59-65.
Leggat, S. G., & Dwyer, J. D. (2006). Coming to your TV: The ideal
health care professional (Editorial). Australian Health Review, 30(1),
5-6.
Leggat, S. G., Shiel, W., & Krin, K. (2006). Tools for priority setting:
Lessons from South Australia. Australian Health Review, 30(1), 65-72.
Leggat, Sandra G., T. Bartram, and P Stanton.
2005. Performance monitoring in the Victorian health care system: An exploratory
study. Australian Health Review 29 (1):17-24.
Leggat, Sandra G., M. Harris, and David Legge.
2005. The changing role of the health service manager. In M. Harris and
Associates (Eds.), Managing health services: Concepts and practice (pp.
25-50) (2nd ed.). Marrickville, NSW: Elsevier Australia.
Leggat, Sandra G., and Judith Dwyer. 2005.
Inspiring innovation. In Health care reform and industrial change in Australia:
Lessons, challenges and implications, edited by P. e. a. Stanton. UK:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Leggat, Sandra
G., and Judith Dwyer. 2005. Improving
hospital performance: Culture change is not the answer. Healthcare Quarterly
8 (2):60-66.
Bergin, A. , Sandra G. Leggat, D. Webb, and
K. Ai Lane. 2005. A case study on easing a bottleneck in aged care. Australian
Health Review 29(3): 327-31. 29 (3):327-331.
Bartram, T., Pauline Stanton, Sandra G. Leggat,
and B Fraser. 2005. The Challenges for HRM and Performance in the Victorian
(Australian) Public Health System. Published proceedings of the Academy
of Management Meeting, Hawaii.
Bartram, T., B Fraser, Pauline Stanton, and
Sandra G. Leggat. 2005. Human Resource Management in a Public Health System:Adoption,
Barriers, Challenges and Implications for Organisational Performance.
Published proceedings of the IHRM Conference, Queensland.
Leggat, Sandra G., and Judith Dwyer, eds.
2005. Australian Health Review, Volume 29, Issues 1-4
Leggat, S.G. (2004). Healthy children, healthy country: The use of governing
instruments in shifting the policy paradigm. Australian and New Zealand
Health Policy, 1(1). http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/1/1/4
Leggat, S., & Dwyer, J. (2003). Factors supporting high performance
in health care organisations: A review of the literature (Commissioned
paper published on website http://www.nicsl.com.au/resources_reports.asp?cat=27&navPage=2):
National Institute of Clinical Studies.
Leggat, S., & Dwyer, J. (2004). Inspiring innovation. In P. Stanton
& e. al (Eds.), Health care reform and industrial change in Australia:
Lessons, challenges and implications. UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Leggat, S., & Dwyer, J. (2004). Australian public hospital performance:
Is it the culture? Public Sector Management.
Leggat, S. G., & Dwyer, J. (2004). Improving hospital performance:
Culture change is not the answer. Hospital Quarterly.
Leggat, S. G., Cull, T., & Dwyer, J. (2003). Statewide Review of Paediatric
Services. (Part of the Metropolitan Health Strategy). Melbourne, Victoria:
Department of Human Services.
Leggat, S. G., & Tse, N. (2003). The role of teaching and research
hospitals in improving global health (in a globalized world). Healthcare
Papers, 4(2), 34-38.
Leggat SG (2002) Turning evidence into wisdom. Healthcare Papers, 3(3),
44-48.
Dwyer J & Leggat SG (2002) Innovation in hospital care. Australian
Health Review, 25(5): 19-31..
Leggat SG & Walsh MR (2000) From the bottom up and other lessons from
downunder. Healthcare Papers 1(2): 37-46.
Brunelle F, Leatt P & Leggat SG. (1999) Governance in transition.
Hospital Quarterly 2(2): 28-34.
Leggat SG et al. (1998) A review of organizational performance assessment
in health care. Health Services Management Research 11(1): 3-23.
Leggat SG & Tardiff G. (1998) The impact of the purchaser provider
funding model in the United Kingdom on the independence of persons with
disabilities: Implications for the Canadian health care system. Dalhousie
Law Journal 20(2): 530-552.
Wasylinki D, Leggat SG, Garfinkle P & Rackow V. (1998) Program planning
in an academic department of psychiatry. Annals of the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 31(2): 80-84.
Leatt P & Leggat SG. (1997) Governing integrated health delivery systems:
meeting accountability requirements. Healthcare Management Forum 10(4):
12-18.
Leggat SG & Leatt P. (1997) A framework for assessing the performance
of integrated health delivery systems. Healthcare Management Forum 10(2)
Leggat SG & Leatt P. (1996) Monitoring the performance of strategic
alliances in health care. In P. Leatt, L. Lemieux-Charles, C. Aird &
S. Leggat (Eds) Strategic Alliances in Health Care: A Casebook in Management
Innovation. Canadian College of Health Service Executives.
Glazer-Axler H, Leggat SG et al. (1992) Plasma fractionation: War in a
Canadian vein. In RB Deber (Ed) Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy
Management. University of Toronto Press.
Research
Innovation
in healthcare organisations
Evaluation
of Access Block Improvement Program, New South Wales
Documentation
of a successful interim healthcare strategy
Linking
people management and organisational performance in health care
Improving
the transfer of teamwork competencies from academic setting to the workplace
for health care professionals
Research Interests
- Performance monitoring and improvement
- Health system planning and evaluation
Selected Research Projects:
- Priority Setting in Health Care Planning
- People Management: A Survey of the Public Health Care Sector with
Stanton, Bartram, Habridge & Garetta.
- Myer Foundation Vision 2020 Documentation of a Successful Interim
Care Strategy with Bergin & Webb.
- Rural Retention of Allied Health Professionals: The Importance of
Networks.
- Ambulatory Care: International Practice
- Review of the Priorities of Paediatric Rehabilitation Services
- Principal Investigator: Review of Victorian Paediatric Services with
Cull, funded by the Victorian Department of Human Services, 2002
- Co-Investigator: Impact of Regionalization on Specialized Services
with Deber, Cockerill and Cohen funded by the Medical Research Council
of Canada 1998/99
- Principal Investigator: Study of the Practice of Internal Medicine
and Surgery in Northern Ontario funded by the Provincial Coordinating
Committee on Community and Academic Health Science Centre Relations
with Vayda, Williams and Atkin 1996/97
- Co-Investigator: The Description and Assessment of the Delivery of
Medical Care by Specialists in Ontario funded by the Task Force on the
Funding and Delivery of Medical Care in Ontario with Vayda and Hannah
1996/97
- Co-Investigator: Tools for Monitoring Hospital Performance and Healthcare
Interactive Simulation Exercise (HISE) funded by HEALNet with Leonard
and Pink 1995/96
- Co-Investigator: Patient Satisfaction Surveying, Indicator Development
for Management Reporting and Costs of Teaching and Research funded by
the Toronto Academic Health Sciences Council with Pink and Murray 1995/9
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